VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Saturday issued a brand new structure for the Vatican’s central administration, generally known as the Curia, stating that any baptized lay Catholic, including ladies, can head Vatican departments.
Most Vatican departments have been headed by male clerics, normally cardinals. The new, 54-page structure, referred to as Praedicate Evangelium (Preach the Gospel), took greater than 9 years to finish.
It will take impact on June 5, changing one accepted in 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
One a part of the preamble of the structure says: “The pope, bishops and different ordained ministers usually are not the one evangelizers within the Church,” including that lay women and men “ought to have roles of presidency and accountability”.
The ideas part of the structure says “any member of the devoted can head a dicastery (Curia division) or organism” if the pope decides which can be certified and appoints them. It makes no distinction between lay males and lay ladies.
(Reporting by Philip PullellaEditing by Mark Heinrich and Christina Fincher)
